While the United players were celebrating, Arsene Wenger was thinking about who to replace.

Now on the pitch, Arsenal's attacking combination is Yelo at the front, Mane and Sanchez on the left and right on the wing, Cazorla in the middle who is responsible for organizing the attack, and the two back midfielders are Kante and Fabinho.

Such an offensive combination is perfect in terms of staffing, and there is no problem at all.

It's also very balanced.

But the more this happens, the harder it is for him to make substitutions.

Replacing any one of them could upset that balance.

This is where he has to make a substitution.

The centre-back is now Van Dijk alone.

It's definitely not going to work, you have to keep the back line intact.

Koscielny has already been called out by him to warm up and will have to be ready to play in a few minutes.

Manchester United are in high spirits right now, and if Arsenal's backline continues to be like this, it will be a matter of time before they concede another goal.

On final reflection, Wenger felt that only Fabinho could move.

Kante and Kante are absolutely immobile.

N'Golo Kante is a full-time defensive midfielder, and if he goes down, the midfield is largely unguarded.

And what about Cazorla?

He needs to be responsible for the team's offensive organization.

And Cazorla actually chose a good location and had a good sense of location.

At some point, he can also form a two-man midfield with N'Golo Kante.

Neither of these two can be replaced, let alone the wide players.

Mane and Sanchez slammed back and forth, feeding Yelo cannonballs.

These two wide players are the equivalent of Arsenal's two legs, do you think a normal person would cut off one of their own legs?

You can run on two legs, and you can only crawl on the ground on one leg.

Running is obviously faster than climbing.

So you can't change the wide players either.

Ye Luo can't be changed.

Without Yelo, Arsenal would not have equalised, and it would be impossible to even win the game.

So when you think about it, only Fabinho can be sacrificed.

Although Fabinho's role is also heavy.

He is the man who connects Arsenal's midfielders and midfielders, and he also has the ability to cut forward into the box and shoot from the spot.

But now.

He can't defend as Kante and attack as Cazorla.

So sacrificing Fabinho was the only option.

And just like that, five minutes after Manchester United were in the lead, there was a dead-goal chance and Arsenal made a substitution.

Fabinho was substituted and Koscielny came in.

Wenger also knew that this substitution was very helpless, but he couldn't help it, in order not to let Fabinho have any bad ideas.

He took the initiative to hug Fabinho, patted him on the back and praised him, "You did a great job. But unfortunately, I have to come down with someone else......"

I didn't expect Fabinho to be quite sensible.

"I know, boss. As long as I can win, I don't have anything. ”

Wenger breathed a sigh of relief after receiving a satisfactory answer, and he tapped Fabinho on the shoulder again and sent him back to the bench.

'Arsenal made a substitution, Fabinho was brought on and a centre-back was brought on...... This substitution adjustment is completely passive...... This was a forced substitution. ”

Manchester United's players have also seen it, and they are more confident in winning this game.

Arsenal fans, on the other hand, are worried and frowning.

Now they will face up to 10 men, 70 minutes of intense competition, how long will these 10 men be able to hold on......

After taking the lead, Manchester United did not retreat immediately, they still wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to score another goal for Arsenal.

Still, they were calm and knew that now was not the time to get carried away.

After attacking for a while, they saw that Arsenal's defense was not scattered and was still very tight, so they gave up this idea.

I went back and honestly dealt with Arsenal, waiting for Arsenal's attack, and then waiting for an opportunity to fight Arsenal's counterattack.

Arsenal, who are best at playing against others, has now tasted the taste of being counterattacked by others.

It's a bad taste......

Yelo is now the most anxious to score a goal, because even he himself has been deceived by Mourinho's statements.

He also thought before the game that Mourinho was scared by him, which is why he said such soft words.

He looked down on Manchester United and Mourinho a few times in his heart.

Who thought that he had been deceived!

When he found out, Ye Luo was extremely angry.

It was also when Mourinho rushed off the dugout to celebrate, and found that he had been deceived by the old fox.

The thing that Ye Luo hates the most is being deceived.

Because it will make him feel like he is being played by someone else.

He wants Mourinho to understand that the way to anger himself is not just to sneer at him before the game.

In fact, Mourinho himself was a little concerned about exposing his mind so early.

But who made the goal come so early?

The goals are all coming and he's not indifferent, so the morale of the team is really going to take a hit, so he has to come out.

At the same time, he also felt that Arsenal were one goal behind and one person less.

Even if they know they've been cheated and fooled, so what?

Could it be that such a good situation can't allow Manchester United to win the game?

As soon as he thought of this, he rushed down and celebrated exaggeratedly.

And it works very well.

Manchester United's morale went up all at once, while Arsenal's morale was declining at a rate that was visible to the naked eye.

Under the trade-off, Manchester United is now shrinking its defense, but it is also a contraction that occupies an advantage.

Jose Mourinho didn't sit back in the dugout after he scored, he stood on the sidelines, his hands in his pockets, watching the game on the pitch.

He didn't say anything, he didn't do anything, he just stood on the sidelines, and he gave the players a lot of strength and confidence.

That's the highest level of a manager.

But today, Ye Luo is going to fight the legendary coach.

He just couldn't swallow it.

Yelo began to raise his hand frequently to signal his teammates to pass the ball to him.

Before, he only did this occasionally when he ran to the shooting position, but in fact, as everyone became familiar and understood about him, he no longer had to raise his hand, and the football would naturally pass to him.

Now he is in any position, he raises his hand to ask for the ball.

This shows that he is really angry.

His teammates were obedient, and the football passed to him one by one.

Anyway, Fabinho is gone, and Arsenal now have to attack very simply, that is, pass the ball to Yelo at the back, or on the wing, and then attack.

Yelo is not going to the box now, he is withdrawn to ask for the ball.

He asks for the ball, and the ball is given to him.

Then he didn't dribble or pass the ball after receiving the ball, and he just shot at goal.

It doesn't matter where the position is, it's just a shot anyway.

It's unreasonable, but over the years, Arsenal's players have gotten used to it.

Ren Yeluo has this ability and qualification, what else can we say?

In fact, Ye Luo is rarely so rude now.

Most of the time he is still like a normal player, cooperating with everyone and creating opportunities for others.

It's really unreasonable like this when you shoot on goal, and you don't see it twice in a season.

For the first time this season, he used it for Manchester United.

Neither United nor the rest of the United realised what it meant for Yelo to do so.

In their opinion, Ye Luo must have been annoyed and angry, and after being in a hurry, he began to throw off his teammates and go it alone.

Not only were they not afraid, they also hoped that Ye Luo would do more of it.

Because this will make Ye Luo isolate himself from his teammates, he will lose the support of other teammates, and what if he is powerful alone?

Wasting opportunities like Yelo's is actually draining Arsenal's morale.

After a long time, everyone will naturally lose their fighting spirit.

Anyway, the ball was wasted by Ye Luo in the end, what else did the others fight?

But the game didn't go as they thought it would.

No matter how unreliable the football Yelo shoots, the Arsenal players are constantly feeding Yelo with cannonballs.

At this time, no matter how big the players are, they are willing to make green leaves for Ye Luo, because Ye Luo is a bigger card than them.

Manchester United are gradually feeling the pressure.

And what worries them the most is......

By doing so, Yelo has reduced the pressure on Arsenal's attack, and they don't need to invest too many personnel to attack, so they can naturally let more people stay at the back to guard against Manchester United's attack.

The numerical disadvantage is completely unrecognizable......

Anyway, in the past ten minutes, Manchester United has not made a single counterattack.

On several occasions, even if they attacked half-time, they quickly faced Arsenal's superior forces, and then they were surrounded and annihilated.

Even Rooney couldn't help it, let alone anyone else.

However, Manchester United's strict defense has indeed made a lot of effort.

It was up to Yelo alone, at most, to shoot from a distance outside, and he couldn't completely open the Manchester United goal.

You must know that the curtain from the goalkeeper to the defender is not vegetarian.

To blast their goal with a long-range shot, it has to be a world wave.

But alas, Ye Luo has 12 shots on goal so far, and none of them have been a world wave.

Either it was too straight and De Gea was saved, or it bounced off the United defender, or it just shot away.

The two sides remained deadlocked until the end of the first half.

The score was still 0-1, and the visiting Manchester United took the lead.

When the first half ended, there was a sense of relief among the United players and fans alike.

Then there is rejoicing, and finally there is self-confidence.

Because they held on to Arsenal's indiscriminate bombardment in the first half.

Faced with a siege that lasted for nearly thirty minutes, they did not concede a goal.

It's a great defensive toughness.

It gave them the confidence to hold on until the end of the game.

Now as long as they hold on for one more minute, it's a victory.

Because with the passage of time, Arsenal's physical strength is also disappearing rapidly.

Seventy-five minutes into the second half, the Arsenal players reached a limit of fitness, and at that time, with a little pressure from Manchester United, Arsenal could collapse completely!

At that time, whether it was a goal or not, Manchester United were already invincible.

On the contrary, the Arsenal players walked off the pitch with their faces gloomy and their heads bowed.

Everyone's face is not good-looking.

They trailed by one goal in the first half and were unable to pull it back until the end of the first half. Secondly they have one man missing, which will have a profound impact on the team's game in the second half.

Back in the dressing room, the United players looked thrilled and hugged Rooney to cheer on his first-half performance.

Some people also asked if Rooney's penalty was deliberate, because everyone felt that with Rooney's speed, it was impossible for Koscielny to catch him easily.

So Rooney told his plan in the admiring eyes of everyone.

He received more praise and touting.

To be able to think of this battle plan in such a short moment is indeed very powerful.

Many people's minds may not be able to react at that time.

Now because of Wayne Rooney, Arsenal are one goal behind and one man less.

As long as United hold on in the second half, the victory will be for Manchester United.

And that's not the one that pleases them the most.

What pleased them the most was the return of Jose Mourinho.

When the boss returned to the dressing room, he was greeted by the players.

Everyone applauded and cheered for Mourinho.

Mourinho is full of excitement, how can he still have the slightest cowardice?

Everyone was deceived by him, and he himself was happy with the result.

He waved his hand, and the cheers in the locker room subsided.

"Guys, now is not the time to cheer."

Although happy, Mourinho is still calm.

"Forty-five minutes left, and anything can happen in those forty-five minutes. So cheer and cheer when the game is over! ”

The boss must be right, and after he finished speaking, no one was cheering.

Everyone just looked at him, hoping he would say more.

"First of all, I apologize to you, yes, I deceived you. But everyone saw it, and I lied to them. ”

Mourinho pointed out the door.

"It works out pretty well. It wasn't until they conceded the ball that they realized what they had done. ”

There was a burst of laughter in the locker room.

The Manchester United players think it's funny and very happy that Arsenal have been deceived.

At this time, they forgot that they were also deceived by Mourinho.

'But our opponents are not scarecrows and they will definitely make adjustments in the second half. They will strengthen their attack, they will have more offensive means, and it is not enough to defend Ye Luo alone......"

Mourinho began to talk to everyone about the issues to pay attention to in the second half, basically the core meaning is one, that is, Arsenal's counterattack in the second half will be very frustrating, with a variety of means, especially the two wings. In order for Arsenal to score, Manchester United's defense in the second half had to pay more attention to other Arsenal players.

After all, no one dares to underestimate those Arsenal players, who can play the main role in a team like Manchester United alone.

Meanwhile, in the dressing room at Arsenal. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is also telling everyone what to do in the second half.

He did not criticize Yelo's brutality in the first half, on the contrary, he also asked the team to cooperate with Yelo to do so.

At least for the first twenty minutes of the second half.

Because he found the advantage of Yelo's doing, that is, it can help the team save a lot of physical strength as a whole.

Because the offense has become Ye Luo's business alone, the others only need to pass the ball to him, not even to run, and watch from behind after passing the ball.

In this way, it naturally does not consume much physical strength.

For Arsenal, who have one less person to attack, it is important to be able to save energy.

This way you won't crash in the last fifteen minutes of the game due to physical exhaustion.

In fact, Ye Luo's approach is not the right way, and it is strictly forbidden in many teams.

But Arsene Wenger had the courage and guts to affirm Yelo's approach, and asked the whole team to cooperate.

There was one person in the entire Arsenal squad who disagreed.

Yelo's status at Arsenal is evident today. (End of chapter)